# Help with alpha channel animation in photoshop

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**Category:** design\
**Created:** [April 7, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-alpha-channel-animation-in-photoshop/256792 "2008-04-07T13:14:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-alpha-channel-animation-in-photoshop/256792/1 "2008-04-07T13:14:28Z")

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Hi

I’m drawing an animation in a 2D animation application called TVAS, and i now need to color every single frame. The program renders the animation as a separate TGA file for each frame. I want to color them in photoshop, but i dont know how its done mostly automatic.

The alpha channel that is outputted is attached here (resized to fit the upload standards here), and i want to be able to, easy and quick, color it. Please give me a guide to how i turn this alpha channel into a black outline layer that i can paint behind.

Cheers  
/Aske